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How to Play Pool Golf

📍 Pocket Order

🎱 Golf Pool Equipment

Golf pool needs no other equipment than a standard game of eight-ball. Players will need cue sticks, a cue ball, 15 object balls and a billiard table. Golf pool can be played either on a snooker table or an American billiards table.

📋 Golf Pool Rules

In golf pool, each pocket is given its own number designation. These pockets are numbered in a clockwise pattern, from 1 to 6. The shooters must pocket their ball in ascending fashion, from 1 to 2 to 3 and so on. The lowest number of total shots after all players have finished is the winner.

To keep track of which player is which, each player chooses one of the numbered balls to act as his personal shooting ball for the game.

🎯 Shooting in Golf Pool

• A shooter begins his turn in golf pool by placing his object ball on the foot spot.
• The shooter then places the cue ball in the "kitchen", or the area behind the head string on the billiards table.
• If a shooter pockets the object ball in the 1-hole, he or she places it on the foot spot again and tries to pot the ball in the 2-hole. This continues until the shooter misses. In this way, it is possible for the first player to win without the others getting a shot.
• When the shooter misses, the next shooter takes a turn. This player shoots the ball from the kitchen. Note: When a player misses, that player's object ball remains on the table.
• Each player gets to start their first turn by shooting the cue ball from behind the head string. After the first round of turns, though, the cue ball remains on the table wherever it comes to rest. If a player pockets the cue ball, the next player shoots from the kitchen again.

🎱 Special Snooker Rule

If a player commits a foul, then the next player to shoot is allowed to remove any balls that snooker or block his object ball. After the shot, the obstructing ball must be replaced.

This rule is one of the few times balls can be moved from the table in billiards games.

🎲 Golf Pool Scoring

Each shot at the object ball counts as a 'stroke'. The player tallies the number of strokes taken to pot the object ball in the designated hole. In addition to the strokes, points are added for any fouls that occur during the turn.

⚠️ Golf Pool Fouls

• Ball off table: If you knock any ball off the table, this is a foul in golf pool. Object balls are placed on the foot spot. The cue ball is ball-in-hand behind the head string.
• Wrong pocket: If you pocket the object ball in the wrong numbered hole, this is a foul.
• Wrong ball first: If you fail to hit your object ball first when shooting, this is a foul.
• No rail contact: If you don't contact a rail cushion with the cue ball after it strikes the object ball, or you don't contact the cushion with the object ball after it was struck by the cue ball or you don't pot the object ball, this is considered a foul.